dispense with
Example Sentences
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As the United States Supreme Court explained in 1942, the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel implicitly embodies a “correlative right to dispense with a lawyer’s help.”
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
He says it’s time to dispense with cocktail-party niceties about AI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Customers are increasingly being lured by brands like TimberTech, which dispense with wood altogether in favor of polyvinyl chloride patterned to resemble mahogany, teak, or hickory.
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
In December 1927, it cautioned young women "to become a good cook before you marry, darling. Then you will be competent to rebuke a staff of domestics or to dispense with one".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
In addition, Khoi herders west of the Fish River of South Africa traded with Bantu farmers east of the Fish River, and continued to dispense with farming themselves.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
